Dougherty

At the 2020 census, 36,142 Americans bore the surname Dougherty — 950th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,270.

By the numbers

People: 36,142
Rank: 950th
How common: 1 in 8,270
Per 100,000: 12.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Variant of Doherty.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Dougherty described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Dougherty

Michael Dougherty (born 1974)American screenwriter
Michele Dougherty (born 1962)Space physicist at Imperial College London
James Dougherty (1921–2005)American police officer and husband of Marilyn Monroe
Dennis Joseph Dougherty (1865–1951)Catholic cardinal

People named Dougherty with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Dougherty

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.